— More than 3,000 children detained after illegally crossing the border into the Southwestern United States have quietly resettled in Florida this year, and the prospect of more arrivals has sparked a mixture of compassion and fear.
Their resettlement,...

WASHINGTON Florida immigration courts, swamped by a growing stream of unaccompanied children who illegally crossed the Southwestern border, are creating "rocket dockets" to quickly decide whether they should be sent back to their turbulent...

A tropical wave in the west-central Caribbean has become better organized and may become a tropical depression, according to the National Hurricane Center.
According to the 2 p.m. update, the wave located about 200 miles east of Cape Gracias a Dios,...

As Tropical Depression 8 moves over Central America, two tropical waves are brewing in the Atlantic, both worth keeping an eye on.
One, of immediate interest to the islands of the eastern Caribbean, is expected to approach the Lesser Antilles on...

A tropical depression in the Caribbean strengthened into a storm on Sunday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.At 5 a.m. Monday, Tropical Storm Rina was over the northwestern Caribbean sea with heavy rains affecting northeastern Honduras. It...

Claudia Velasquez, a Honduran immigrant held with her 7-year-old daughter since October in a federal detention facility, looked at the judge Monday via a video hookup as he considered her request for bond.
Velasquez and nearly 1,000 mothers and...